TEXARKANA MAGAZINE
J ust last month, I was honored to sing a song I wrote for my close friends, Abby and Joe, on their wedding day. It was a simple, beautiful day in New Boston, Texas, at Four Fifteen Estates, one of the most gorgeous, awe-inspiring wedding venues I have ever seen! While I enjoyed myself that day, and I will never forget the moment I looked down, singing above my dear friends, strumming my guitar during their first dance, something just felt off for me. As I glanced around and felt the all-consuming tangible embrace of eternal love in the air and all the mushy, gushy feelings from those who witnessed this profound moment in my friends’ lives, I could not help but feel like something was missing for me. I could not help looking at Abby and Joe as they said, “I do,” and thinking… will I ever experience that for myself? I know, I know, I have heard it all before, from my closest friends, to homeless people, to pastors. I have gotten the infamous “maybe this is just your “season of singleness” (excuse me while I go vomit at the word season being thrown in my face AGAIN!). “Bailey, maybe you will never be in a relationship.” Haha, have you seen me?! I am irresistible! “Bailey, if you ARE single forever, consider it a gift from God. Relationships and marriages are work, not fairy tales.” I’m willing to put in all the work necessary. BRING IT ON! That is the least of my worries. Sitting around the lunch table on Thanksgiving, seeing every cousin I have sitting next to their husband or wife, girlfriend, or boyfriend, I always wonder if NEXT year will be the year I bring GOOD EVENING TXK COLUMN BY BAILEY GRAVITT
LIVE MUSIC
November 4 Alex & Liv The Hideout, 9 pm November 5 Texarkana Symphony Orchestra Masterworks II Metamorphosis Featuring Andrew Staupe Perot Theatre, 7 pm November 11 PHED 1923 Banana Club
November 12 Wes Jeans Redbone Brewing, 8 pm November 12 Stevie Ray & The Deacon The Hideout, 9 pm November 17 Gaither Vocal Band Trinity Baptist Church, 6 pm
November 19 The LaRouxs The Hideout, 9 pm
November 11 Creed Fisher 67 Landing, 7 pm
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